Reviews for A matter of time

The average rating for A matter of time based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-05 00:00:00 John Cartelli On 28 August 1945 John Swope-a photographer with the Commander In Chief Pacific-sailed into Sagami aboards the USS Hawkins. Swope, with his Rolleiflex, was to photograph the liberation of the POW camps near Tokyo. He then went on to travel and photograph the soldiers who had been imprisoned and also the Japanese soldiers. His moral compass then turned to the citizens of Arai, Nagoya, Shiogama and other sites. The black and white photos show a depressed and worn people on both sides. HI shots also help to show that the Japanese were neither war-like or heinous, rather he found "a docile, peaceful-looking poor" people with "little or no modernization outside of the big cities and factories". The book also shows Swope's photos from Hollywood with actors such as Henry Fonda and Joan Crawford during their leisure time. It's a wonderful reminder of the resilience and brightness of people in the most trying times.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-23 00:00:00 Stephanie Mccoy This is a coffee table pictorial style book. The problem with it is that it is now dated, being first published in about 1981. Having said that it is quite fascinating to look back at that time and reflect on how much things have changed. Things that struck me were the about of people smoking cigarettes, the treatment of Aboriginal people and ignorance of the effects of the sun and its link o skin cancers. This book will be very interesting to look at in about 100 years I would imagine.